How Can I Market With Articles If I Can't Write?

Written by Bonnie Jo Davis


The shrewdest and most effective means of free advertising is through providing interesting and relevant information to your potential customers. You can do this easily by writing and distributing free reprint articles at various web sites aroundrepparttar 'net. There are literally thousands of e-zine and web site publishers actively searching forrepparttar 120659 interesting and informative articles you can craft in your area of expertise. Targetingrepparttar 120660 audiences of these publishers is an essential element of your cost-effective advertising and marketing strategy.

I am convinced that anyone with a web site can promote that web site along with its business, products, and/or services by implementing this basic marketing strategy. Sure, it sounds simple enough, but what if you aren't confident in your writing skills? Accurate written communication isrepparttar 120661 foundation of this marketing maneuver.

Can you write?

My initial experience involved submitting articles written by other people to publishers. I was so excited when I sawrepparttar 120662 response generated by this technique that I decided to use it when I began my own business.

One day I sat down with pen-in-hand attempting to begin writing my own articles and spentrepparttar 120663 next half hour staring atrepparttar 120664 blank sheet. In frustration, I eventually put downrepparttar 120665 pen and walked away, later complaining to a friend that I hated to write. I complained about lacking writing expertise and that my qualifications basically amounted torepparttar 120666 good grades I earned in English classes long ago. My friend gently interrupted me pointing out that I had been writing on a daily basis at work. She also brought to my attentionrepparttar 120667 fact that my education provided me withrepparttar 120668 necessary skills to write competently and effectively.

After kindly showing merepparttar 120669 forest which I couldn't see for its trees, my friend generously offered an incredible suggestion. Her solution for my dilemma was that I should try begin again by choosing a topic and then creating an outline representingrepparttar 120670 points I wanted to cover about that topic in my article. Choosing a topic would give me a foundation upon which to build my article. Drafting an outline would allow me to addressrepparttar 120671 issues that I saw as pertinent and relevant to my topic.

I took her advice, narrowed my possible topics, and selected one that I would reduce to writing. With that one topic in mind, I proceeded to create a comprehensive outline on that blank piece of paper. After completing my outline, I fleshed it out, added stories to illustrate my points, and Voila... I had right there before me a rough draft of my first article! That rough draft, after being carefully proofed and polished, became an article that was published in dozens of online publications. The positive result of my effort was that my article netted me thousands of web site visitors and rewarded me with a treasured long-term client.

Testing and Tracking to improve your conversions

Written by John Taylor


Creating an effective sales letter page is an essential part of your online success. However, unless you're testing and tracking each critical element in your sales content and your sales process, you may be losing a great deal of time and money.

You can dramatically increase your sales conversions simply by takingrepparttar time to test and track your results. Not only will testing and tracking enable you to determine what's working and what's not, but it will also help you to focus your energy onrepparttar 120658 techniques that produce results.

When testing, keep in mind that, a technique that produces results for one person or one web site may not produce results for you or for your web site. There is no one size fits all technique that works for everyone. You must develop your own style and technique and test your results to determine what works for you. So, what are we measuring? Well, you may think that I am over simplifying matters here but I believe that there is only one real measure and that is simplyrepparttar 120659 outcome of your visitors’ decision when faced with a choice. Whatever your most wanted response is your visitor will either say yes or no. Every decision, or call to action, that you want a prospect to take must be tracked. The result of that tracking will be a yes or a no. When you know that a specific number of visitors tookrepparttar 120660 desired action, andrepparttar 120661 remainder did not, you can analyse your results. If you takerepparttar 120662 total number of unique yes calls to action, and you divide them byrepparttar 120663 total number of unique visitors torepparttar 120664 web page you will know your conversion rate. For example, if 1,000 people visit a web page where you have an ezine opt-in form, and 30 people opt-in, your conversion ratio for that opt-in form is 3% (30/1000). So what parts of your web page should you try to improve? Here is a list of web page elements that you should focus your attention on: 1. Headline 2. First few paragraphs 3. Follow up 4. Deadline 5. Scarcity 6. Delayed payment option 7. Price 8. Upgrade 9. Downgrade 10. Good until cancelled 11. Guarantee 12. Immediate back end sale 13. Bonus items 14. Reposition your offer 15. Alternative colours and graphics 16. Readability 17. Complementary product endorsements 18. Header graphic 19. Order page 20. Payment process 21. Navigation links 22. Everything else!

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